{"title":"Books by Michael Korda","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780062116307","title":"Clouds of Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale.\" —\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of\u003cem\u003e Ulysses S. Grant \u003c\/em\u003eand the bestsellers \u003cem\u003eIke \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHero\u003c\/em\u003e, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKorda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army in 1861 because he could not \"draw his sword\" against his own children, his neighbors, and his beloved Virginia. He was surely America's preeminent military leader, as calm, dignified, and commanding a presence in defeat as he was in victory. Lee's reputation has only grown in the 150 years since the Civil War, and Korda covers in groundbreaking detail all of Lee's battles and traces the making of a great man's undeniable reputation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, positioning him finally as the symbolic martyr-hero of the Southern Cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClouds of Glory\u003c\/em\u003e features dozens of stunning illustrations, some never before seen, including eight pages of color images, sixteen pages of black-and-white images, and nearly fifty battle maps.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222347559285,"sku":"9780062116307","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780062116307_0210f57a-3b87-4149-8df9-61692e009e81.jpg?v=1786011462"},{"product_id":"9781324096184","title":"Muse of Fire – World War I as Seen through the Lives of the Soldier Poets","description":"Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolise the war’s tragic arc and lethal fury.   His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, “the handsomest young man in England” and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice.   Korda’s dramatic account not only brings to life the soldier poets but paints an unforgettable picture of life and death in the trenches, and the sacrifice of an entire generation.   As Korda demonstrates, the poets of the First World War were soldiers, heroes, martyrs, victims, their lives and loves endlessly fascinating—that of Rupert Brooke alone reads like a novel. Muse of Fire is at once a portrait of their lives and a narrative of a civilisation destroying itself, among the rubble, shadows, and the unresolved problems of which we still live.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297903784309,"sku":"9781324096184","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781324096184.jpg?v=1791212817"},{"product_id":"9781845137717","title":"Hero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This magnificent, monumental portrait at a stroke makes all others redundant, and re-establishes Lawrence as one of the most extraordinary figures of the 20th century'               \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Korda’             s Hero is an epic biography of the mysterious Englishman whose daring exploits made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as Lawrence of Arabia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, one of five illegitimate sons of a British aristocrat who ran away with his daughters' governess, T.E. Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916, vanished into the desert in 1917, and re-emerged as one of the most remarkable and controversial figures of the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus, an adventure he recorded in the classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A born leader, utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain and danger, he remained modest, and retiring. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, and acclaimed writer, Lawrence was a visionary whose achievements transcended his time: had his vision for the modern Middle East been carried through, the hatred and bloodshed that have since plagued the region might have prevented. The democratic reforms he would have implemented as British High Commissioner of Egypt, are those the Egyptians are now demanding, 91 years later. Ultimately, as this magisterial work demonstrates, Lawrence remains the paradigm of the hero in modern times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308399538549,"sku":"9781845137717","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781845137717_d2015168-bad0-453f-80aa-7507cadd7804.jpg?v=1786028572"},{"product_id":"9781631494642","title":"Passing – A Memoir of Love and Death","description":"It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, \"Michael, I think something serious is wrong with me.\" Within a few rapid weeks, the fiercely independent, former fashion model was diagnosed with brain cancer, while Michael, once reliant on her steeliness, became her caregiver, deciphering bewildering medical reports and packing her beloved toiletries for the hospital. An operation performed by a renowned surgeon allowed Margaret to ride her favorite competition horse Logan go Bragh a few more times, but Margaret's tumors quickly returned-leaving her to grapple with the reality of impending death. In rapturous prose, Korda, a modern- day Orpheus, braids her heroic story with heartrending details of their final year together. Passing, a tender memoir, is a testament to the transcendent possibilities of love.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368094675317,"sku":"9781631494642","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781631494642_16441c7b-9f76-4d06-a93c-e1405d4a4728.jpg?v=1787039878"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-michael-korda.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}